In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Mingfei Yan, a Program Manager on the Azure Media Services team. Mingfei goes over the two options for protecting your content when using Azure Media Services: AES Clear Key and DRM. AES Clear Key is the less secure option but prevents…

Mingfei Yan from the Azure Media Services team shows Scott how easy it is to get video into Azure at scale, then view from any device. Areas covered in this video: Azure Media Services portal Creating a Media Service Reviewing media content in Azure Available Azure Media Encoding (Portal and APIs)…

Scott learns how to service video from Azure dynamically to any mobile device! Mingfei Yan from the Media Services team has the hookup. Areas covered in this video: Access Azure Media Services programmaticallyImport the Azure Media Services .NET SDK using NuGetCreate and run an Azure Media Services…

In this episode of the
Coding4Fun Show,
Brian Peek interviews
Jeremiah Morrill who has written
WPF MediaKit, an amazing library to quickly build DirectShow and MediaFoundation media player controls in WPF. It's amazingly powerful and, as a developer, can be used with just a few lines of XAML.…

For the longest time, I've been baffled by the concept of sound in computing. How in the world is sound store? How is it played back? In classic Coding4Fun style, we'll learn by doing in this article—by building a wave oscillator application.
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A new post on the e7 blog goes into detail about the new
Media Streaming features in Windows 7. Features include easily sharing media with other PCs and DLNA devices on your home network, remote control mode, transcoding media types and more. The best part is a lot of this functionality is…

Is 2010 the year of the media streamer? Certainly the category has had more than its fair share of headlines this year, with the likes of the Boxee Box and others thrilling the tech community. One of the products that gets a lot of buzz amongst digital media enthusiasts is Popcorn Hour. Their…

Engaging with rich media—whether watching a movie, video chatting, or playing music—is one of the most prevalent and enjoyable things we do on our PCs today. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/06/08/building-a-rich-and-extensible-media-platform.aspx

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution licenses TV shows and movies to broadcasters around the world. In 30 days, a team of Silverlight and .NET developers at Fox built an app for Windows 8 and published it to the Windows Store. The FoxFast app for Windows 8 is for their worldwide broadcast…